August 11, 2026 • 56 mins
The 2026 NFL season is upon us, and the NFC West remains one of football's most fascinating divisions. Will the Rams "all-in" moves from the past few months prove to be enough for another Super Bowl run? Are the 49ers ready to bounce back after an offseason filled with change? We also examine the Cardinals' young core and assess the Seahawks' chances of repeating as champs. From quarterback questions to playoff expectations, we're breaking down everything you need to know in the NFC West!
Los Angeles Rams (00:00)
San Francisco 49ers (13:34)
Seattle Seahawks (27:16)
Arizona Cardinals (41:52)
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Get ready for another dog fight in the NFC West.
Reigning champs Seattle Seahawks, looking to double up, lost a
couple of guys, but most of the cast that brought
the Lombardi back to the Northwest are back. The Niners
picked up Mike Evans and get several key stars back
from injury, so they're expected to be a force again.
And of course, the Rams, who seem to be everybody's
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preseason Super Bowl fave, are loaded after adding Miles Garrett
and possibly Aaron Donald who sounds like he may unretire.
Cardinals the underdog of the group, we'll see what third
round overall picked Jeremiah Love can do for them. And
maybe Carson Beck, even after he raised some eyebrows early
in the preseason faving ore what this thing la? Rams?
(00:45):
A team that took a look at its hand and thought,
let's just go ahead and push all our chips in there.
Talk about a team going all in. What an off
season courage about our This is what the NFL's about.
Man horns strutting around Hollywoo with Super Bowl favorite stickers
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on their backs.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
This is what the flip for. This is what the flupfoar.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Dog no way around it. Rams head into twenty twenty
six expecting to make it to the final dance, which
is being played at their house.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
So Fi Stadium is at a fever pitch.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Whose house their house? They just said, it is like
what Ram's house, Sofi Stadium. They didn't revive Blockbuster, but
man did they make one. Trading for the guy who
just set the record for most sacks in a single season.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
For a shot, Miles Garrett sacks number twenty three.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Welcome to Tinseltown. Miles Garrett, First Team All Pro five
of the last six years, ten plus sacks eight straight seasons.
So now LA has the reigning Defensive Player of the
Year and the reigning MVPs.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Down La Boomy Parkinson talls game. Matthew his ag.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
They have as good a shot as anybody. Stafford comes
off an MVP season that saw him lead the NFL
with the career high forty six touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Go down Earth wore seven I let's know.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
It only eight picks. Led the league in yards too,
with over forty seven hundred.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Stafford in the shotgun and the noise of Seattle throws left.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It's kying drums.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
He walks in for a receiving touchdown.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
He is still equipped with the same elite playmakers. Huka
Nakua may not have landed Sydney Safari or Sarah Sweeney
this offseason. That's this, but he should still feel good about.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Himself best and the worms still jump to get that
one to him.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Anybody better you would take today? Look you love your
dog seeing.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Has over seventeen hundred yards last year in sixteen games.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
What up? What Up?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Almost beat out JSN for the yards crown. He yea
ten touchdowns, led the NFL with one and twenty nine catches.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Pro goes last.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
It's Nakula, Oh my goodness, stabs it with the right hand,
the catch of the season.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
First team All Pro in his third season in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Pooka Nkoua in prime time with the season on the line.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
The league's TV and TD King's back.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Staffer to the air again claps the pocket SIS.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
One and it is caught on the left side line.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Davonte made the catch, Yes he did.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Adams brings it in across midfield.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yo know, Davante. Adams was close to eight hundred yards
and fourteen games, one touchdown per game average.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
And it's caught for a touchdown. DeVante Adams touchdown LA.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
It's one of them day, go up, one of the night.
You kill a man with a flat.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
To top the league in touchdown catches.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
It's a touchdown times nice City, dian down night.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Sitting down and Stafford has two great backs to hand
off to.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
A lot.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Let him know, ain't nobody better?
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Let him know?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Kyron Williams over twelve hundred yards on a nice four
to eight per try.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Touchdown, Kyen Williams.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Ten touchdowns, eleven hundred plus rush yards the last three
years straight.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Kyen Leepsin go ahead touchdown for the Rams, Kyron's second
rushing touchdown of the night.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
And Blake Korum with seven hundred and forty six yards
six tds five to one per run in his second year.
They're two headed attack in the convo for best backfield duo, run.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Up the fieldfee, what happens run up.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
The field fe plus all those tight ends. Stafford hit
four different guys for a total of seventeen touchdowns at
that position.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Kicks sixteens on the zone touchdown.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Like that's Tyler Ferguson two hundred plus yards, three touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Stafford launches end zone day first, got it touchdown.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Fourteen games, three starts. Davis Allen three touchdowns in his
seventeen games.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Matthew foot to the back, hits caught for a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Tyler Higbee got in ten games, scored three times. Holby
Parkinson over four hundred yards and eight paint jobs, shoots.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Right side, leak and catch touchdown Life.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Wo rookie wide receiver Xavier Smith sixteen games, three starts,
a little over three hundred yards, dat sars Smith un plays.
Their offense put up more points per game than any
team in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
So Poca's got it touchdown rams more yards per game,
go ahead touchdown.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
So they're just hoping for more of the same on
the scoreboard. Now they could improve their third downplay. Middle
of the pack on that front. Rams Big Uglies didn't
need no alibi.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I love it, I love it, killer instink what go man?
Come on?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
None of their guys gave up more than four sacks
last year.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Hey, you love it?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
You guys gotta love it. No team gave up fewer
as a whole second lowest pressure rate allow no changes
to the line either. Lark Jackson, Warren McLendon still at
the tackle spots. McLendon, playing in all seventeen games in
twenty twenty five, only made ten starts. Avi Law and
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Kevin dottson at guard, Coleman Shelton returning at center. They
are not expecting a drop off offensively, but they expect
some improvement with their defense.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
No better billy in the world make it them the life.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Let's go and it wasn't bad last year. Held teams
to twenty a game.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Right side Joss Wallace fifty forty gets a blot from Fisk.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Eighth best on third down, third, toughest in the red zone,
and plenty of takeaways.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Steps up in the pressure.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
This is a takeaway, but they could be a top
five or top three type unit. To that end, they
swung big trading for corner Trent McDuffie.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
McDuffie, a second team and first team All Pro in
twenty twenty three and twenty four, didn't play as well
in twenty five, but is viewed as top shelf.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
This is a pick going the other way and it's
what a toughee.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
He will be joined by another former Kansas City corner
Rams added, Jalen Watson two. He played the pass to
a low seventies rate couple of picks heading into his
year five as well.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
In the ends up, It's gonna be an accepted. He
accepted by Jalen Watson.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
They join a secondary that held quarterbacks to a nice
low eighty seven rating.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
He's when is here.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Jump held him to six point eight yards per attempt,
almost one pick per game. You gotta keep out put
on a nick, you gotta keep it.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
On a neck.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
You hate it. They did lose one corner corner Darius
Williams hung them up off a sub ninety rate year.
Emmanuel Forbes is back though mid nineties rate due to
allowing six tds, but a whopping eighteen passes defense second
most and three iron t's At.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
A battle, Forbes pumps up with the little reception.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Did lose safety Kobe Durant held it down to a
low seventies rate.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Three picks it packs intercepted Kobe Durant.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
At the law.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Quinton Lake, another chap coming off a sub ninety rate
season versus the pass, only got in ten games in
his fourth year.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Scooped up by Quinton Lake down the ramps, sideline and.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Tumbley to the twenty They're happy with their cam duo
at safety two curl holding his targets to a sub
eighty rate, two picks, two sacks while making a career
high one hundred and twenty two tackles.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Intercepted, picked off a diving interception at the twenty two
yard line.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
His partner Kinchins gave up a rate over one hundred
but two iron tas and over eighty tackles.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Darnold throw someth's heels pitch intercepted at the thirty five.
Going the other way down the right side line, Cameron.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Kitchen safety Jalen McCullough saw a bump in action his
second year, held passes his way to a sub eighty rate,
four passes defense, no touchdowns allowed in his limited reps.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Blitzers, ons, trouders, hit tonal goes.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
They have their young fearsome foursome two point zero still.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Gotta be hit from the back and drop doorsot.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Led the way to f forty seven sacks and twenty
twenty five seventh most.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Coby the conductor breaks the sacks.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Drounds along with the fourth highest pressure rate for the
line side down. They have a beast outside linebacker pairing
Byron Young led the team with twelve sacks career high
in his third season, eighty two tackles, twelve for a loss.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
Hearts the Rams making plays as Byron Young gets home
for the sack.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
They did have to give up Jared Verse to get
Garrett gone Off a seven and a half sacked, twenty
seven QB hit year.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
You're not going harder than that.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
We're not going hider than that. Boy.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Kobe Turner a seven sack third year in the pros.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Oh no, if you can, but it's gonna be a
great one.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Brandon Fisk saw a dip in his sack production as
he only managed three bags in his second year. Vet
poona Ford taking care of the dirty work. Two QB
TA downs and close to fifty tackles from the nose
tackle spot is impressive.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Every team he goes to, he makes an immediate impact.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
They could benefit from tougher rush defense. Gave up four
to three a carry a year ago.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yes, he's so fast.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Freaking linebacker Nate Landman comes off a good year despite that,
over one hundred and thirty tackles a career high. Both fumbled.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
It's on the deck, It's Landman.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Landman all over it.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Omar Spates eighty five tackles and his year two kicking
it over here baby Pop Beastie style, and he doesn't
need TP for his You know MeVis Harrison twelve for
thirteen on field goal tries and perfect on thirty nine
extra points after taking over duties midway. It's good.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
The Rams win. It's in over time.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
So that front seven looks even more dangerous than it
did before. Fisk, Ford and Turner on the inside, Young
and Garrett wreaking havoc off the edges, Landman and holding
down the inside linebacker spots new Blood in their second
area as well. McDuffie takes Durant's place at corner, Watson
coming over from Kansas City as well, joining Lake and
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Forbes in the cornerback room. The cams return at safety.
Offense is running it back. I didn't mention Ty Simpson
out of respect for Stafford. If all goes well, nobody's
going to mention him outside of look at him holding
that iPad Houka Adams and their tight end trio will
gobble up most of the targets. Kyron and Quorum will
gobble up the handoffs. No team in the NFL has
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a higher over under than the Rams eleven and a half.
Ravens the only other team to receive that mark, and
LA got that despite having the fifth hardest expected schedule, IE.
How many games are their opponents predicted to win? Here's
a look at those opponents. They have eleven teams that
are supposed to finish with above five hundred records, but
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being they don't play Baltimore, they don't face anybody they
aren't in theory supposed to be seen wins is an
unrealistic ceiling. But after that Garret trade, who knows man,
No team has a higher ceiling at this point, say
fifteen wins in their case for this exercise, give them
road losses to San Francisco and Seattle. But if you
want to say it's a sixteen or a seventeen win ceiling,
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you're not going to get much argument from this bag.
When I look out of it, a dozen plus wins
looks like low hanging fruit unless Stafford falls off a QB.
Cliff McVeigh, him, Puka, DeVante, Kirn and Korum are not
going to be easy to slow down. And now a
defense featuring mister Garrett, I.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Feel the juice.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
I got one.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
That boy, set the done every yet every done that.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Whistle plus set the done again.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
You are not through the door.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
The Monty Python Black Knights aka the San Francisco forty
nine Ers lost both arms last year, both legs, no matter,
just a flesh wound.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Do you believe in this team?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
They bit the legs off twelve teams, symbolically speaking, If
they can just get through this year without half their
roster landing in a Scrubs episode, they could make a
run to the final game being played at their home
away from home at the end of the season.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
You want to more than the let's go bring it out.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Check this out, Brock Perdy. Nine games played, George Kittle eleven,
Brandon Aiyuk zero, Ricky pearsall nine, Nick Bosa three, Fred
Warner six, mckel Williams nine and still a half dozen wins.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
In favor of the mass units the forty nine ers,
and they earned it.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Give them a healthy roster for a full year and
they think they're a powerhouse no one will want to
deal with.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Last week, I gave you the mess. No matter what
you do, you wake up with a joy.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Joy, especially because their offense added auto Micic Evans, who
also has to rebound from an injury impact in twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Up touchdown catch, Bye bye.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Guvia Evans the big addition this offseason, only played eight
games a year ago.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I think the ball got away from Mike Kevins. Watch this.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
He has to take it back away from Kobe Bryant.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Thousand yards plus the previous eleven straight touchdown eleven to
fourteen tds four or five years twenty twenty to twenty
twenty four, just one of several future Hall of famers
on this roster.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Flat pass catch touchdown.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
By got it CMC Music Factory still the likely focal
point of their offense again.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
Christ jed Asad with a touchdown.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Hey summersaults into the end zone.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Keith for McCaffrey avoid injury.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
He he's got a.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
McAffrey got out.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Over twelve hundred rushing yards in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
McAffrey blows his way into the end zone.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Ten scores down low.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Once, not twice, but thrice for McCaffrey.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Did grind to finishing under four yards per carry for
the third time in his career.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
It's gonna get off a.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Touchdown, still a major player in the passing attack over
one hundred receptions after walk scheme, over nine hundred receiving
yards and seven receiving tds.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Purdy wants to throw Purty pressure, Purty steps up, Purty.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Throws con touchdown, McCaffrey touchdown, forty nine ers back in front,
guy feeding him all those passes still Senor BCB.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Brocket's gonna keep it.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Brocket to the episode, rock Purdy hoping to put in
a full shift in twenty twenty six. It's time Joe
get Lumberg to call him and let him know it's
not a half year or anything.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Okay, Saeball Pather Robertson.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Touchdown Purdy two hundred and forty plus yards per game
three straight years. Head Its Snack by Jenning hosted a
one hundred plus eight a year, go one hundred plus
rating three of his four years since being picked last.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Jed Eggs front of the episode.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Touchdown, Rock Purdy still has eliteness at tight end a
half okay. George Kittle seven touchdowns over six hundred yards
in his eleven games.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
It is my own you're on today. You're all down
on the crutches, cut down and I'm at.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Now he's coming back from an achilles injury.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Throws the deep ball down field, Kettle makes the catch
over the shoulder.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Thinks he'll make it back to start the year, ops.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
It into the inside. George Kettle, Richie.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Jump passing with your body, poor hands, Yeah, I would,
I'm on real Sometimes if he's not ready. They have
Jake Tungs who filled in nicely when Kittle was out
last year.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
You think that was.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
To him?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
That might have been the Kittle Titans all over the
league's going.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Touchdown Niners offense wasn't terrible despite missing so many guys.
Twenty five points per game was top ten. Good rolls
over the meddle at its caught by de Barcus Robinson,
fourth best in the red zone, and how about tops
on third down?
Speaker 6 (18:23):
It was a weak drop all the way down the
field by b Rock.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
They would like to cut back on the giveaways this year.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Out at Seattle has.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Recovered and to be more efficient at moving the ball.
Twentieth in yards per game isn't anything to write home about.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Takes a pitch that pitches in the Taffrick bubbles it
out about.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
But taking the fifth few of sacks is rolling left.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
He's got used check use check bags.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
To catch continuity up. There is all five twenty twenty
five starters return for twenty twenty six. Trent Williams, Colton
mckivitz at tackle, Connor Colby, Dom Puny at guard, Jake
Brendel at center. O line still has the assistance of
full back extraordinary. Kyle Yustchek chipped in over two hundred
receiving yards too.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
He was checking the flat first out nearside.
Speaker 8 (19:09):
Let me touch it up field across midfield, puts his
shoulder into the defender.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Juwan Jennings isn't back though, career high ninety vs. Last year,
six hundred plus yards best it.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
He's got it good fine the twenty the ten he's gone.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Added Christian Kirk to the fold. Been a while, but
the vet has some nice years on the resume.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Lay fake passed wide open touchdown.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
And they drafted day Sean Scribbling in the third round.
Speaker 9 (19:37):
This dude got some helium late in the process. He
went to the combine and ran a blistering four to
three six forty And you see there are two hundred
and seven pounds and the run after catch, that's where
that speech shows up, specifically in a game against Georgia
where he catched a five yard little hitch and rolls
away from Everett, Who's someone who ran four to three
six or four to three eight at the combine.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
But just look at it. When he gets the ball
in his hands after the catch. City, he can absolutely fly.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
He'll join Evans and Ricky Piersall should see more balls
if he can stay healthy. Over five hundred yards in
his nine games in his second year. They think he's
a thousand yard type guy. If he plays all seventeen
said goodbye to Kendrick Bourne off a five hundred plus
yard season. McCaffrey will have a new understudy since Brian
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Robinson left town. Pitched in four hundred rush yards off
the bench.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Who's gonna take it in for the touchdown?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Niners defense lost the guidance of Robert Sala again.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I would have forgot it if I'd have but.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Grabbed former Atlanta head coach Raheem Morris to take his place.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
This white this fight, Bro's twenty one zo, we know
we gotta do.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
He's taking over a defense that held its own despite
missing two first team All Pros for most of the season.
Teams to twenty one a game. It was remarkable under
the circumstances.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Dock do why buy Eric Hendricks? The forty nine ers take.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Over run downs maybe even more remarkable because they sported
the league's worst pass rush. Didn't play the pass.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Well, fires com plain touch.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
The gutter, didn't play the run well.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
A little bit of a skip step and an adjustment
to the possible tackle.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
He stepped right out of it.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
They weren't good on third down, So imagine if they
can fix a few things, I'm going to dominate. They
allowed a one hundred rate to quarterbacks, didn't pick off
many passes. Back of the end, zoners to only four
teams easier to complete passes against.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
For lovelent Itz touch down.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
They can play the run better. They gave up four
to three a carry out.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Time that we up fifteen.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Fuck and how about bothering the quarterback more often? Twenty
sacks fewest in the NFL, second lowest pressure rates. Nick
Bosa should hear all that and demand like one hundred
million a year.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Looking Pocka collapsing down, he goes nick Bosa.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Only three games played last year. He's as good as
it gets off the edge assuming he's all healed up.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Darn old, hen does he let it go?
Speaker 5 (22:17):
The ball is loose.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
The forty nine ers have it.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
It's Bosa.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Wasn't just Bosa, though they drafted Mickel Williams last year
in the first to play the robin to Bosa's batman.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
Not gonna be able to find a way out of
that one, as.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Williams the rookie has his first sack.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
That was Williams's only sack in nine games played. Bryce
Huff filled into the tune of four sacks, but he
isn't returning pressure.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Boa comes out, Ball cups out. It was Bryce hof
who got ta.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
They got a little something from Sammyo from the inside,
three sacks in his third year, back to back three
sacks season.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
God Ron fourth mass than the night folk. Let's go see.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
AI would have at least tried to pronounce his name.
That's to make it clear. I'm real and clearly lazy.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Hey, good job, good cop.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I do know how to say odiggy zoo. Though Osa
new in town last year, three and a half sacks
with Dallas.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Lots of t hear the cop downy go oh so
diggi Za.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
The other interior beef eaters that DT Jordan Elliott sixteen games,
sixteen starts, thirty one tackles behind them preferably all season
super linebacker Fred Warner. With that, Warner had over fifty tackles.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Fred Warner's gonna bot.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Fred Waters was just set the new San Francisco record
for forced bumble and.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
He only played six games. Some dudes can't do that
with seventeen games.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
David go take that?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Did I let go?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
His old mate Dre Greenlaw returns forty three tackles in
eight games with Denver hasn't been healthy two years in
a row.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Check shit down, juggle and dropped incomplete.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Traded away linebacker d Winters. He had a good year
career high one hundred and one tackles, eight for a loss,
plus a pick.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Heay winners a fed it Day Winner's going the other way.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Kadum Bethune also looked good, also a young guy, ninety
four tackles in his second year, made eight starts.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Time runs out. Tarnald has dumped.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
At level three corner. Ronardo Green also lost time to injury.
The one dB who comes off a really good year
versus the pass, though, held his targets to a mid
eighties rate ten passes defense, no touchdowns allowed to the
end zone dark incomplete coverage by Green looking for Slayton corner.
Diamador Lenor didn't have a bad twenty twenty five locked
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up a lot of number ones. Mid nineties rate allowed
a couple of picks.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
It's intercepted, picked up by Diamador.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Law corner uped in Stout rate allowed one hundred, no
TD's given up though over eighty tackles.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Downs was the target and Stout was there.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
For San Francisco safety Gyre Brown low nineties rate given
up two i in t's seventy six tackles year four
coming up oh his partner Malik Mustafa rate allowed over
one hundred in his second season, had to pick and
seventy six tackles in twelve games.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Mallock Mustafa with the interception.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Kicking that flava in your ear. Eddie Pinero, who comes
in off leading the NFL and field goal percentage went
twenty eight for twenty nine all right overview time secondary,
generally speaking, relying on the same cats to stop quarterbacks
Mustafa and Brown at safety, Stout, Leonore and Green at corner.
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Hobbs will pitchin as well. Maybe Jack Jones can strum
a few chords for them. Front seven. Getting Bosa and
Warner back is huge. Greenlaw is back takes Winter's place
at linebacker, o'diggee Zua supplanting Jordan Elliott at defensive tackle.
If their guys upfront stay healthy, it changes everything on offense.
Evans and for Jennings, Kirk and stribbling for a Yuke
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keep tabs on Kittle's rehab, BCB and CMC return for
more fun. Niners got slapped with a ten and a
half over under win total, second highest in the league.
Seattle got the same, the Rams, one of the two
eleven and a half teams. The Niners expected strength of schedule,
so calculating their opponents twenty twenty six expected win totals
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pencils out to the seventh easiest track, so that's favorable.
Here is their slate. If they beat Miami, Arizona, Denver,
and Washington at home, Atlanta on the road, take care
of Vegas, Dallas, Minnesota, Seattle in front of the faithful,
The Giants get the Rams at home, the Chargers down south,
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Philadelphia back in the crib and sweep Arizona, that makes
for a fourteen wins ceiling. That's a steep ass for
this game preview guy, but they do seem set up
for eleven plus doves all, assuming the roster avoids all
those injuries they have. The talent just has to stay
on the field.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
What Shawks.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Sixteen twenty twenty five was an Empire strikes back year
in the NFL. The dark Side reigned, cut luke'sand off
Froze hands solo Seattle Seahawks and their menacing defense capturing
the Lombardi after winning fourteen regular season games.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Seattle rains of them all.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Now for the hard part, not letting a band of
teddy bears ruin your repeat bid.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
They can't take it away from him and never will.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Have to fend everyone off without the same cast. But
the guy that shaped their budding imperial defense is still
lurking on the sideline super Bowl Super Bowl, And if
Mike McDonald is the Jedi Master, he kind of appears
to be. May not matter who he's working with.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Your super Bowl champion brother, man, thanks for believing it.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
Yeah, man, I love it.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
It's not like folks were predicting he'd turned Seattle's defense
into the hardest team to score on it went down.
They know, hardest team to convert a third down on
only three teams holding quarterbacks to a lower rating. No
team holding them to fewer yards per attempt. Fifth most interceptions.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Hold up bail joy in love forty steps out about.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
He built a pass rush that put up the seventh
most sacks. Stup on mills the fourth highest pressure rate.
And they goes down and did it without blitzing much.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Hey steps up up che cheyawks on it.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
And to top it off, his boys were the hardest
team to run on. They didn't have some random shaft
a team could take advantage of. Their defense was full proof.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Oh we do, goddars.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
No, they were the eighty five Bears, the two thousand Ravens,
the twenty thirteen Seahawks.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
Then is it our way?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Then is an our way?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
They don't get nothing, maybe resembling their former selves the
best because they were not inept offensively what the plans
are right, thanks in large part to the Vikings scold
to Minnesota from the northwest, Am I right?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Hey, J Barner on a perfect pass. Darnold, we have
seen him throw that before.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Twenty eight points per game. Third most eighth most yards
per game and the Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Now they've stretched their lead to nineteen to nothing over
the Patrie.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
They will be running it back with most of the
same crew. Have to replace their top running back in
Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker on the offensive side, who
left Town off a thousand yard season.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Boy Kate is so good. He's got the stop start,
but his feet are always moving.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
They didn't waste time replacing him, taking Jadarian Price with
their first round pick.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Vision balance, We saw the.
Speaker 9 (30:23):
Kickoff return value there at Notre Dame as well. Look,
he had to play second fiddle to Jeremiah Love, but
this is a real deal back. There's a reason why
we all had him as a second running back in
this class. How about the contact balance. Once he absorbs contact,
he's able to get right through it. He's got you
can make Casey has even better vision than Jeremiah Love does.
He's a natural natural vision and feel as a runner.
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He's slippery and elusive.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
They will rely on a slightly altered secondary. They are
going forth without one of their starting safeties, Kobe Bryant,
who bolted off an excellent year playing the pass. He
picked off four balls held quarterbacks to a sub sixty rating,
and it's picked up Cody and no more. Reek Woolen
at corner also was tough on quarterbacks, holding them to
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a mid seventies rate, knocked down twelve passes.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
It is all about interceptor.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
They were four deep at corner, though, so losing Woolen
shouldn't hurt all that much.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Stafford shot, dug stap, pump Bay pastime, fire to the
ms off.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
All about in interceptor. Witherspoon jumps in front of the
untended receiver.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Devin Witherspoon has established himself as a CBE one type.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Which is coming Megan drapped up and drop.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
If Weatherspoon again comes off the edge, I don't think
may ever saw it.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Three years in the league, three Pro Bowls, comes off
a second team All Pro year. No corner Josh Joe
quietly one of the best corners going, held his targets
to a low seventies rate, played the pass that way
in twenty twenty four to two. Doesn't passes defense in
his fourth season.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I'd coverage intercepted.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
It's Josh job and corner Nick Amm and Worry might
have got jobbed out of defensive Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 8 (32:06):
Three Cousins deflected and Eman Worri off the deflection from
his chest.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
And yes he played slock corner more than safety, but
he was all over the field for them defensive Swiss
Army Knights.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
How about Nick aman Worri a block field goal, his
first career interception and now one and a half sex
on the season.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
If they get a full year from safety Julian Love,
that would mitigate Bryant's loss.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
And to the back of the heads, he's going to
where he wants.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
Well, he's pausing for a second to confirm that he's opened.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
He played the past great in the eight games he
got in last year, a low thirties rating with six
passes knocked down and a pick.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
If you don't the go ball, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Fourth year safety Tayokatta maybe slides in for Bryant, rating
aloud over one hundred, but sixty five tackles and a
pick in his first year starting games.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Goda's gona blitz and he gets there out and bring
him down.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
They also bolstered their backside with a second and third
round pick in the draft, first taking safety Budd Clark.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Yeah, he's a lean frame and all that, but he
finds the football. That was that opening night against.
Speaker 8 (33:12):
North Carolina Bill Belichick's debut.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
He would love to have that one back.
Speaker 8 (33:16):
How about Bud Clark getting into coverage there, locating the football, great.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Hands, then corner Julian Neal, big and long.
Speaker 9 (33:24):
He's a real efficient mover on the outside. Just want
to see him trust his eyes. We talk about that
with a lot of these dbs. Do you trust your eyes?
Just trust it and go pull the trigger and go
get it because he's got all the physical tools. Just
want to see him get rid of some of that
hesitancy CD because I believe there's more in his body.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
He can be a really good player. Front seven lost
a few faces. Let defensive end boy A Mafey walk
only gave him two sacks last year. They're starting front four,
all back, a half long, Leonard Williams coming off a
second team All Pro.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Effort nor more oh good.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Over sixty tackle, seven QB takedowns.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Let's go, let's go Old.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Iron Murphy broke out in his second season seven sacks
as well, same sixty two tackles as Williams.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Iron Murphy ends up with the sack.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Third member of their seven sack club Huchenna and Wo.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
Su I below team down and it get wait what first.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Season without missing ten plus games in three years? And
DeMarcus Lawrence back for his thirteenth year pro bowler in
year twelve six sacks housed, two fumble returns. Hi that
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I like that that DT Jaron Reid filling out the
starting front four two and a half sacks in his
thirteen games. They have defensive end Derek Hall as well,
a couple of sacks in fourteen games. Three starts.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Now he's being dragged down back at the New England
forty five.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
Yard line, d Hall, Derek.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Hall gets in there.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
Let's go ahead, Oh.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Let's go man behind them? Linebacker Ernest Jones, who made
second team Mole Pro in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
I cannot o good.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
That kind one hundred and twenty six tackles, fourth year
in a row with one hundred plus and how about
five iron t's everyday you got? His partner Drake Thomas
comes off a ninety six tackle three and a half
sack shift career highs the first time a starter in
his three years with brag Thomas and backing them up
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third year linebacker Tyrese Knight planted two quarterbacks close to
sixty tackles, mostly coming off the bench.
Speaker 8 (35:46):
The same guy that hit him on the first touchdown,
Tyrese Knight hits him again.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Less changed to the offense, Yosemite. Sam Darnold back at quarterback.
I got, hoping to continue his second half career resurgence.
Toutch down say Hawk twenty five TVs. Last year, Plenty
of chunk plays.
Speaker 6 (36:09):
Wide open, breaking up, cut down.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Close to two hundred and forty yards per game, a
rating of ninety nine.
Speaker 6 (36:17):
Chap step take.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Step Je wasn't as explosive on paper as he was
for Minnesota. Didn't need to be got as to look
it's up.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
They took the leave in the NFC West. It's the classic,
as they said.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
But could cut back on the I INT's. But he
left justin Jefferson wishing they'd held on to him.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Look throath balls caught cut down say Hawks.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Had to watch him help Jackson Smith and Jigba take
over his top wide.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Out it pop tell up gets Copper, but he makes
the catch. Rep It's going on?
Speaker 6 (37:01):
What movie?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
One hundred and nineteen catches ten touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Well factor.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Sahawks show league leading seventeen hundred and ninety three yards.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Far back corner of the Hanzo guess who.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
First team All Pro in just his third year.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
He's gonna go in touchdown.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Stay hawk from six hundred and twenty eight yards as
a rookie.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Don't put up underneath jaf and.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
To eleven hundred and thirty to over seventeen hundred last year.
Maybe tough to keep that trend up.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Make the catch, break the tackle.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
He's gonna back.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Into the Handsoe Cooper Cup the number two again close
to six hundred yards two scores last year for the Vet.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
It can hit it, it's Cooper Cup was the reception,
but adequate based on JSN needing to get his first
oh Man, I'm Rashid Shaheed picked up via trade, came
through with some big plays as a receiver and on
returns at a gap.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
I brought the party with quickly. John A Tipper got game.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Was a pro bowler on that front. Liked his impact
enough they signed him to a three year deal.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Man the man on rashi yah ha Yahee Jeff ran
Right bath them about fifty yard explosive.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Why they're plenty happy with their tight end.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Oh my goodness, how did Sam squeeze that one in there?
In a great cats by Barnard A. J.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Barner a career high fifty two catches, five hundred and
nineteen yards sixt ds in his second season.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Barner's gotta touchdown.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
Welcome to the barn Show.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
The boys that set all of them up. No one
on their O line allowed more than four sacks in
twenty twenty five. If you get to knock down points
on that, both her down and we're both getting something.
I've loved that dude running it back with the same
five dudes too, Charles Cross and Abraham Lucas at the
tackle spots, Gray's Abel Anthony Bradford at guard, Jalen Sundell
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their center Sundell and Cross hoping to avoid injuries that
cost him a few games each. They were top five
and pressure rate allowed and sacks taken. Be happy with
similar play again this year.
Speaker 9 (39:08):
Will get into tween those one lines, so that mentality
of like sometimes get people's out of bad teams.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
At running back have to wait on Zach Charbonnet, He's
recovering from an ACL tear, hoping for a midyear return.
Went for over seven hundred yards in their time share,
led the team with twelve rushing tds, career high in yards,
touchdowns attempts without starting a single game in his third season.
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Emmanuel Wilson a sneaky good pickup close to five hundred
yards coming off the bench most games for Green Bay.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
And Wilson slips throwing scores to give Green Bay the lead.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Michael Dixon comes in off a second team All Pro
campaign as a punter. Jason Myers back to handle the
leg duties perfect on forty eight free throw attempts, missed
seven field goals, did try more than any other kicker
nine for twelve on fifty plus tries.
Speaker 9 (40:02):
Jason Myers now has set a new Super Bowl record
with his fifth field goal tonight.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
So the one big change to the offense losing walker
hoping the price will be right when they handed Jederion
Wilson a newcomer to the backfield as well, and keep
your eyes on George Halani. Not much action his first
two years, but he had some buzz surrounding him in camp.
Rest of the cast the same, Sammy Dee pitching it
to JSN, Coop Sheed and aj. They added bodies to
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their defense, but they're starting eleven should all be guys
who the Twelves know well. Ocata and Clark taking Bryant
snaps at safety next to love Emon, worry Job and
spoon Back at corner. Playing behind the same front seven
as last year, Williams Murphy, Reid in the trenches and
Wosu Lawrence being joined by Vet Dante Fowler who was
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with Dallas last year on the edge. Jones Thomas Knight
their second level linebackers. Hawks got a ten and a
half over under sticker placed on them, same as San
Francisco game lower than LA. Where's the respect?
Speaker 2 (41:06):
I ask?
Speaker 1 (41:07):
They do have the eleventh hardest schedule if you look
at who they play in factor in those teams twenty
twenty six expected win totals here are set opponents playing
the ceiling game with them. They could still start with
wins over New England, Arizona, Washington, the Chargers and the
Niners in front of the twelves. Kansas City is a
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home game two, beat Chicago, sweep the Cards, take Vegas
down Dallas and the Giants Philadelphia on the road, win
their home contest versus the Rams, and get Carolina on
the road. For thirteen wins. The optimistic Hawks fan would
not have a hard time believing that I'm not one
of those just a dufe to c in a bag.
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But I still see eleven plus wins out of this
thing for them. That McDonald guy is no joke, and neither.
Speaker 8 (41:54):
Is that d.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
Arizona Cardinals three wins in two twenty twenty five led
to changes along the sideline and behind center. Sort of
finish this finish, boys, let's finish keep going, Mikey, So
now need to really lean into some mister mister take
those broken wings and learn to fly again already.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
Yeah, good job, or I'm just doing my job.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Just do my job, baby, Let the Mike lafloor. Jacoby
Brissett era.
Speaker 7 (42:25):
Begin Brissett firing date fireside and Harrison goes up and
he makes the catch.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Hey, if Sam Darnold can go from draft bus to
Super Bowl winner, why not.
Speaker 7 (42:35):
Jacoby throws deep middle in the end zone. It's caught
for a touchdown by Trey McBride.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Fact is, Brissette's play the second half of last year
wasn't all that bad.
Speaker 5 (42:45):
Bassett drives the legs forward and into the end zone
for the Cardinals.
Speaker 6 (42:49):
Touchdown.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
His stat line of twenty three tds against eight iron
t's in line with the likes of Jordan Love, Jalen Hurd's,
Josh Allen.
Speaker 8 (42:57):
Turns around, falls over, makes the catch seventeen yard touchdown.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
And Aaron Rodgers and better than Lamar Maholmes Purty, Daniel Jones,
among others a touchdown. Only seven quarterbacks threw for more
than his two hundred and forty yards per game.
Speaker 5 (43:14):
Carrying it out right side going present.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
Jones at those times of class didn't get much pub
because most of his efforts came in losses, but he
made their offense more dangerous than it.
Speaker 7 (43:24):
Was out Jacoby Brissette again lading the Cardinals down for
a go ahead touchdown.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
Jacoby Brissett, the expected starter for Arizona, seems to have
some competition from Carson Beck, who used the Hall of
Fame game to raise some eyebrows. In his preseason debut,
the Cardinals' third round pick completed fourteen of nineteen passes
one hundred and eighty eight yards and a ninety six
yard drive. He threw a TD posted a one to
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twenty five point four rating in a half of football
tremendous catches.
Speaker 5 (43:54):
That's a great throw to Carson bec.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
With that said, Lafleur has worked to get their O
face in proper shape.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
It's the crowd. The Titans are on it.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
Despite being top ten on third down, they only average
twenty points per game. Not great at moving the ball
or cashing in when they reached the red zone.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Harrison bobbles balls picked off the big ad to this
side of the ball.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Jeremiah Love, who they took with a third overall pick
in the draft.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
You talked about an athlete, how about how loose and
explosive he is. He's able to.
Speaker 9 (44:24):
Make people miss at full speed watching this pit game
of spin.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
They don't even touch him. And then once you get
out in the open field, just forget it.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
You're not going to be able to run him down.
Speaker 9 (44:32):
He is a home run hitter to be able to
make you mess being gladly or we can just go
ahead and take the stairs and jump right over the
top of a USC defender in a rivalry game and
then out of the backfield. He is a threat, not
just someone you're gonna check the ball down to someone
you can get out into the route. And a lot
of times with these explosive backs, maybe you sacrifice some
of that physicality and toughness not so much with him.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
And he will fight his way into the end zone.
Speaker 1 (44:54):
They need much better O line play. Compared to twenty
twenty five, it was a mess and.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
For the sixth time today.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
Nine different guys started games. Five different guys gave up
four plus sacks.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Recent let's get hit again, ball bounces.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
Right tackle Jonah Williams seven and a half allowed. Team
gave up a fat Albert fifty nine total allowed, the
fourth highest pressure rate.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Sim it's a play accident what he runs right into.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
Cam Jordan used their second round pick on guard Chase Besontis.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
Well, there you go.
Speaker 9 (45:28):
They addressed the offensive line and do it along the interior.
The first game I watched to see at the bottom
there was against Miami and that was an epic battle
between him and Ruben Bain, and ruben Bain went inside.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
Very competitive, does not real long. He's got thirty one
inch arms.
Speaker 9 (45:40):
To talk a lot about the arm length in this
year's draft, but he's got run power. He can get
underneath your pads and drive you. And there's an ability
at that second level as an athlete to be able
to adjust in space.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
They signed Isaac say Lumalo to take over at guard.
Was with Pittsburgh last year. Picked up Elijah Wilkinson to
take over right tackle. Not the best year with Atlanta
giving up seven sacks, but Jonah Williams and Calvin Beacham
gave up thirteen combined at that spot last year. James
Connor was lost after three games played.
Speaker 5 (46:14):
Touchdown Arizona.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
Marie Demarcado, Zonovan Knight, Michael Carter all had turns none
able to make much of an impact.
Speaker 8 (46:23):
De Marcado dropped the football as he was going into
the inZone.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
They're hoping Connor can rebound, but also added former Falcon
Tyler Algier over five hundred yards and eight touchdowns as
Jon's backup last season.
Speaker 6 (46:37):
Dowger.
Speaker 5 (46:38):
Here goes Tyler bang ten five minute let us on
the board.
Speaker 1 (46:43):
Arizona's offense sports the league's top tight end holds on
for the touchdown. It's safe to crown Trey McBride at
this point, right.
Speaker 6 (46:55):
Hot on the goal line. Touchdown.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Trey McBride eleven hundred plus yards back to back seasons,
more yards each year since hitting the scene in twenty
twenty two.
Speaker 5 (47:05):
Crows right in the end zone cup for a touchdown
by Trey McBride over.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
Twelve hundred last year with the record breaking one hundred
and twenty six catches over the middle end.
Speaker 2 (47:15):
Of the end zone into a tight window.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
McBride, no tight end has ever had more in a
season eleven touchdowns, First Team All Pro.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
Welcome back to the second time today, McBride.
Speaker 1 (47:26):
Michael Wilson a Jacoby fae five hundred and forty plus
yards his first two years, then over one thousand and
his year three seven touchdowns.
Speaker 6 (47:34):
Michael Wilson doing what Michael Wilson.
Speaker 1 (47:37):
Does, career high in scores and yards in his third year.
Speaker 6 (47:40):
And it's a touchdown. What a dart Now if.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
They could just get w R one production from Marvin
Harrison junior fir side.
Speaker 2 (47:49):
It is under thrown, but it's hot anyway, Ny Harrison.
There were two defenders in front of Harrison, any.
Speaker 6 (47:57):
Rent and away.
Speaker 1 (47:59):
Harrison trying to rebound from the dreaded sophomore slump. Dropped
from eight hundred and eighty five yards eight touchdowns is
a rookie year to six oh eight and four in
his year two.
Speaker 2 (48:09):
Deep left side and side.
Speaker 3 (48:14):
That is so much more than just a touchdown that
gets you within a possession.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
Arizona added vet wide receiver Kendrick Floor into the fold
over five hundred and fifty yards with San Francisco in
twenty twenty five. Sixteen games, eight.
Speaker 6 (48:28):
Starts Jones, deep deep, dropped throw along the sideline, hold in.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
And they have young tight end Elijah Higgins career high
thirty catches three hundred and one yards Asthma Bride's back.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
Up Brisset third and eleven.
Speaker 7 (48:42):
Brissett down the middle got it for Higgins and the
tight end spins off the tackle.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
Cardinals have even more room for improvement on the defensive
side of things.
Speaker 2 (48:51):
Makes the catch over the shoulder, They need.
Speaker 1 (48:54):
To fix it all after walk skin Lafloor choosing to
keep DC Nick Rallis, who held position under former head
coach Jonathan Gannon, but.
Speaker 5 (49:03):
It all on touched down.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
Only four teams allowed more points per game than Arizona's
twenty eight per.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
Being chased by the Cardinals.
Speaker 6 (49:11):
He's at the.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
Five, twenty fifth in the red zone, twenty seventh on
third down, and in yards per game allowed.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
Run norg and it's inside the red zone.
Speaker 1 (49:21):
Have to play the pass better. Gave up a ninety
seven rating to quarterbacks thirty one TV passes, two hundred
and thirty yards per game.
Speaker 2 (49:28):
He's got red by inside the Flood.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
As they have a nice mix of vets and youth,
but they need to play the pass better collectively. Jack
Jet safety Buddha Baker gave up a rating over one hundred.
He did make his seventh Pro Bowl in a row,
though one hundred and twenty tackles one hundred plus tackles
six of his last eight years.
Speaker 3 (49:51):
He had it and then he went to the ground.
Buddha Baker ripped it out.
Speaker 1 (49:55):
We'll have a new starter next to him. Safety Jalen
Thompson is gone. Rate alowed one hundred, but ninety five tackles.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
Run in at the four yard line.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
Safety Daydreon Taylor Demerson could slide in hoping he can
pick up where he left off. Not a ton of reps,
but picked off two passes without allowing a touchdown in
his rookie year for a super low mid thirties rate.
Speaker 8 (50:17):
At Jones got a man in Piersolboy throws it away,
picked off by the rabbit.
Speaker 1 (50:23):
Dadrian Taylor Dennerson added vet safety Andrew wininguard eighty plus
tackle sub ninety eight year in Jacksonville last season.
Speaker 8 (50:32):
That ball is going to be picked off by doing
Andrew Winger picked it off out of the ground.
Speaker 1 (50:37):
Cornerback Will Johnson hopes to clean some things up. He
gave up a rating north of one hundred as a rookie,
allowed five touchdowns in twelve games, took up breaks.
Speaker 3 (50:45):
Of tackle touchdown rams.
Speaker 1 (50:48):
He did also get his hands on ten passes, so
it wasn't all bad. Corner Denzel Burke, on the other hand,
shined all the year, holding quarterbacks to a low eighties rate,
knocking down eleven passes and picking off three as a rookie.
Speaker 7 (51:00):
Right side and it is picked off at the forty
yard line by den Zel Burk, He's tackled there.
Speaker 1 (51:06):
Corner Max Melton only played ten games no touchdowns allowed
when he played, held his targets to a sub ninety right.
Speaker 5 (51:12):
Broke it up by Max Melton.
Speaker 2 (51:14):
Who's been busy today, Rutgers guy, He's really stepped up today.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
Corner Garrett Williams another rebound candidate, after giving up six
touchdowns in his ten games played ray bothering quarterbacks more
often would help those fellows. Cardinals only thirty sacks and
didn't pressure passers very often. At times, it felt like
only two guys were even trying to get home. Josh Sweat,
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who went for a career high twelve sacks four forced fumbles,
has eight plus bags three of the last four seasons.
Grabbed and slung down Kalaas Campbell took off to Baltimore
six and a half sacks in his nineteenth season.
Speaker 5 (51:54):
Hey sack, that's Kalias cambll.
Speaker 1 (51:56):
The other candidates to help hurry things up, Darius Robinson,
who entered his third year.
Speaker 6 (52:00):
To play action in trouble down. He goes that.
Speaker 1 (52:04):
Right there, his lone sack of twenty twenty five. Pretty
sure the Red Sea was expecting more than a sack
per season from him. There's Walter Nolan too. He only
dropped two quarterbacks his rookie year, only played six games.
Speaker 5 (52:17):
It's intercepting by Nolan across.
Speaker 2 (52:19):
By a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (52:23):
Moving Zaven Collins to outside linebacker hasn't really produced as hoped.
Only one and a half sacks last year.
Speaker 7 (52:29):
Close up to five recovered the two by comments and
he rolls into the end zone for a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (52:35):
Baron Browning with two across his fifteen games. And how
about stopping runners before they get too far upfield?
Speaker 2 (52:41):
If we go for that tide, he gets out. He
got pushed that zone.
Speaker 1 (52:46):
To complete the turd Ferguson Sandwich, they gave up four
to four a run to ball carriers Tyson backs. They
swapped one lane clogger for another. Cut ties with Dalvin
Tomlinson after he ended with twenty six tackles over seventeen starts.
Speaker 8 (53:02):
Burrow in trouble again and Burrow goes down. It's Dalvin Tomlinson.
Speaker 1 (53:07):
Brought Roy Lopez back, a twenty eight to thirty tackle
guy the last two years with Arizona. In twenty twenty
four Detroit.
Speaker 3 (53:15):
Last year doubt he goes sack number two on the
day for Detroit.
Speaker 6 (53:19):
It's Roy Lopez.
Speaker 1 (53:21):
Behind them at the inside linebacker spots Vet mac Wilson
sixty tackles an interception in eight games.
Speaker 8 (53:27):
Joel's rolls throws intercepted picked off by mac Wilson.
Speaker 1 (53:33):
And Cody Simon. Looking to build off a rookie year
that saw him rack up seventy six tackles.
Speaker 8 (53:38):
The rookie from Ohio State back in Ohio gets the sack.
Speaker 1 (53:43):
They won't have help from a keem. Davis Gaither left town,
taking down one hundred and seventeen ballcarriers.
Speaker 2 (53:49):
The man it's picked over the middle, Davis Gaither entered.
Speaker 1 (53:54):
Jack Gibbons ended his year with New England with eighty
one tackles, eight for a loss and.
Speaker 6 (53:59):
Driven back where gimmons to finish off the play.
Speaker 2 (54:01):
One linebacker starts it, the other finishes.
Speaker 1 (54:04):
Devin DuVernay the new return man eleven yards per punt
return with Chicago, twenty six on kickoffs, swung multiple games
with big returns.
Speaker 6 (54:13):
Devin Duverney looking for a lane.
Speaker 8 (54:15):
He's got one DuVernay down the sideline and it's Andre
Schmidt who shoves him out near midfield.
Speaker 1 (54:22):
Kicker Chad Ryland was perfect last year on extra points.
He needs to miss less on field goal tries. Seventy
five percent is not a good rate if you're a kicker.
Speaker 2 (54:31):
The kick from Rylan no good.
Speaker 1 (54:35):
So here's what it looks like, simplified front seven. Lopez
for Tomlinson in the middle. They're banking on Robinson and
Nolan to play up to their potential. Nolan taking Kalais's starts,
hoping Ojulari, Collins and or Browning can help sweat off
the edge. Wilson, Simon Gibbons at inside linebacker, Gibbons replacing
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Davis Gather secondary win guard for Thompson at safety, Baker
and Taylor Emerson also being relied upon to patrol the
back Johnson, Burke, Williams, Melton, Sean Murphy Bunting in the
cornerback room and on offense. Love the big addition Algier
added as well. With Connor still around for Jacoby to
hand off to McBride to top tier tight end, Wilson
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on the upswing at wide out. Hopefully Harrison emerges as
a true WR one and Born hoping to carve out
an identity for himself. Within all that, only Miami got
Arizona's four and a half over under designation. No other
team has lower expectations than the Cards and Fins, and
a key to Arizona's low number is their twenty twenty
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six opponents expected win totals. No team in the league
has a harder expected schedule their own division A big
contributor to that. Let's say Woody Woodpecker was predicting their year.
I know it's not the same bird, but he's read,
so here's his bias take. Maybe they catch Seattle with
the Super Bowl hangover. Giants are seven and a half
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over undertip they take Detroit in a shootout. Maybe beat
Dallas because why not they beat them last year. Kansas
City has some question marks, so who knows? Washington another
seven and a half. Are they get Philadelphia at home?
The Jets aren't supposed to be good Saints and mid
type squad expectation wise, and Raiders are expected to have
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a rough year ten wins as a very optimistic ceiling
a game preview guy, good luck to the Red Sea,
but it feels like they're going to be back in
the running for a top three pick.
Get ready for another dog fight in the NFC West.
Reigning champs Seattle Seahawks, looking to double up, lost a
couple of guys, but most of the cast that brought
the Lombardi back to the Northwest are back. The Niners
picked up Mike Evans and get several key stars back
from injury, so they're expected to be a force again.
And of course, the Rams, who seem to be everybody's
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preseason Super Bowl fave, are loaded after adding Miles Garrett
and possibly Aaron Donald who sounds like he may unretire.
Cardinals the underdog of the group, we'll see what third
round overall picked Jeremiah Love can do for them. And
maybe Carson Beck, even after he raised some eyebrows early
in the preseason faving ore what this thing la? Rams?
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A team that took a look at its hand and thought,
let's just go ahead and push all our chips in there.
Talk about a team going all in. What an off
season courage about our This is what the NFL's about.
Man horns strutting around Hollywoo with Super Bowl favorite stickers
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on their backs.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
This is what the flip for. This is what the flupfoar.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Dog no way around it. Rams head into twenty twenty
six expecting to make it to the final dance, which
is being played at their house.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
So Fi Stadium is at a fever pitch.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Whose house their house? They just said, it is like
what Ram's house, Sofi Stadium. They didn't revive Blockbuster, but
man did they make one. Trading for the guy who
just set the record for most sacks in a single season.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
For a shot, Miles Garrett sacks number twenty three.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Welcome to Tinseltown. Miles Garrett, First Team All Pro five
of the last six years, ten plus sacks eight straight seasons.
So now LA has the reigning Defensive Player of the
Year and the reigning MVPs.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Down La Boomy Parkinson talls game. Matthew his ag.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
They have as good a shot as anybody. Stafford comes
off an MVP season that saw him lead the NFL
with the career high forty six touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Go down Earth wore seven I let's know.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
It only eight picks. Led the league in yards too,
with over forty seven hundred.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Stafford in the shotgun and the noise of Seattle throws left.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It's kying drums.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
He walks in for a receiving touchdown.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
He is still equipped with the same elite playmakers. Huka
Nakua may not have landed Sydney Safari or Sarah Sweeney
this offseason. That's this, but he should still feel good about.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Himself best and the worms still jump to get that
one to him.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Anybody better you would take today? Look you love your
dog seeing.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Has over seventeen hundred yards last year in sixteen games.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
What up? What Up?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Almost beat out JSN for the yards crown. He yea
ten touchdowns, led the NFL with one and twenty nine catches.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Pro goes last.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
It's Nakula, Oh my goodness, stabs it with the right hand,
the catch of the season.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
First team All Pro in his third season in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Pooka Nkoua in prime time with the season on the line.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
The league's TV and TD King's back.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Staffer to the air again claps the pocket SIS.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
One and it is caught on the left side line.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Davonte made the catch, Yes he did.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Adams brings it in across midfield.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yo know, Davante. Adams was close to eight hundred yards
and fourteen games, one touchdown per game average.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
And it's caught for a touchdown. DeVante Adams touchdown LA.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
It's one of them day, go up, one of the night.
You kill a man with a flat.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
To top the league in touchdown catches.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
It's a touchdown times nice City, dian down night.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Sitting down and Stafford has two great backs to hand
off to.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
A lot.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Let him know, ain't nobody better?
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Let him know?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Kyron Williams over twelve hundred yards on a nice four
to eight per try.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Touchdown, Kyen Williams.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Ten touchdowns, eleven hundred plus rush yards the last three
years straight.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Kyen Leepsin go ahead touchdown for the Rams, Kyron's second
rushing touchdown of the night.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
And Blake Korum with seven hundred and forty six yards
six tds five to one per run in his second year.
They're two headed attack in the convo for best backfield duo, run.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Up the fieldfee, what happens run up.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
The field fe plus all those tight ends. Stafford hit
four different guys for a total of seventeen touchdowns at
that position.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Kicks sixteens on the zone touchdown.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Like that's Tyler Ferguson two hundred plus yards, three touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Stafford launches end zone day first, got it touchdown.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Fourteen games, three starts. Davis Allen three touchdowns in his
seventeen games.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Matthew foot to the back, hits caught for a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Tyler Higbee got in ten games, scored three times. Holby
Parkinson over four hundred yards and eight paint jobs, shoots.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Right side, leak and catch touchdown Life.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Wo rookie wide receiver Xavier Smith sixteen games, three starts,
a little over three hundred yards, dat sars Smith un plays.
Their offense put up more points per game than any
team in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
So Poca's got it touchdown rams more yards per game,
go ahead touchdown.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
So they're just hoping for more of the same on
the scoreboard. Now they could improve their third downplay. Middle
of the pack on that front. Rams Big Uglies didn't
need no alibi.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I love it, I love it, killer instink what go man?
Come on?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
None of their guys gave up more than four sacks
last year.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Hey, you love it?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
You guys gotta love it. No team gave up fewer
as a whole second lowest pressure rate allow no changes
to the line either. Lark Jackson, Warren McLendon still at
the tackle spots. McLendon, playing in all seventeen games in
twenty twenty five, only made ten starts. Avi Law and
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Kevin dottson at guard, Coleman Shelton returning at center. They
are not expecting a drop off offensively, but they expect
some improvement with their defense.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
No better billy in the world make it them the life.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Let's go and it wasn't bad last year. Held teams
to twenty a game.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Right side Joss Wallace fifty forty gets a blot from Fisk.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Eighth best on third down, third, toughest in the red zone,
and plenty of takeaways.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Steps up in the pressure.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
This is a takeaway, but they could be a top
five or top three type unit. To that end, they
swung big trading for corner Trent McDuffie.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
McDuffie, a second team and first team All Pro in
twenty twenty three and twenty four, didn't play as well
in twenty five, but is viewed as top shelf.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
This is a pick going the other way and it's
what a toughee.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
He will be joined by another former Kansas City corner
Rams added, Jalen Watson two. He played the pass to
a low seventies rate couple of picks heading into his
year five as well.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
In the ends up, It's gonna be an accepted. He
accepted by Jalen Watson.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
They join a secondary that held quarterbacks to a nice
low eighty seven rating.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
He's when is here.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Jump held him to six point eight yards per attempt,
almost one pick per game. You gotta keep out put
on a nick, you gotta keep it.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
On a neck.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
You hate it. They did lose one corner corner Darius
Williams hung them up off a sub ninety rate year.
Emmanuel Forbes is back though mid nineties rate due to
allowing six tds, but a whopping eighteen passes defense second
most and three iron t's At.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
A battle, Forbes pumps up with the little reception.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Did lose safety Kobe Durant held it down to a
low seventies rate.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Three picks it packs intercepted Kobe Durant.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
At the law.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Quinton Lake, another chap coming off a sub ninety rate
season versus the pass, only got in ten games in
his fourth year.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Scooped up by Quinton Lake down the ramps, sideline and.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Tumbley to the twenty They're happy with their cam duo
at safety two curl holding his targets to a sub
eighty rate, two picks, two sacks while making a career
high one hundred and twenty two tackles.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Intercepted, picked off a diving interception at the twenty two
yard line.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
His partner Kinchins gave up a rate over one hundred
but two iron tas and over eighty tackles.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Darnold throw someth's heels pitch intercepted at the thirty five.
Going the other way down the right side line, Cameron.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Kitchen safety Jalen McCullough saw a bump in action his
second year, held passes his way to a sub eighty rate,
four passes defense, no touchdowns allowed in his limited reps.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Blitzers, ons, trouders, hit tonal goes.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
They have their young fearsome foursome two point zero still.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Gotta be hit from the back and drop doorsot.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Led the way to f forty seven sacks and twenty
twenty five seventh most.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Coby the conductor breaks the sacks.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Drounds along with the fourth highest pressure rate for the
line side down. They have a beast outside linebacker pairing
Byron Young led the team with twelve sacks career high
in his third season, eighty two tackles, twelve for a loss.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
Hearts the Rams making plays as Byron Young gets home
for the sack.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
They did have to give up Jared Verse to get
Garrett gone Off a seven and a half sacked, twenty
seven QB hit year.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
You're not going harder than that.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
We're not going hider than that. Boy.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Kobe Turner a seven sack third year in the pros.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Oh no, if you can, but it's gonna be a
great one.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Brandon Fisk saw a dip in his sack production as
he only managed three bags in his second year. Vet
poona Ford taking care of the dirty work. Two QB
TA downs and close to fifty tackles from the nose
tackle spot is impressive.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Every team he goes to, he makes an immediate impact.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
They could benefit from tougher rush defense. Gave up four
to three a carry a year ago.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yes, he's so fast.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Freaking linebacker Nate Landman comes off a good year despite that,
over one hundred and thirty tackles a career high. Both fumbled.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
It's on the deck, It's Landman.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Landman all over it.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Omar Spates eighty five tackles and his year two kicking
it over here baby Pop Beastie style, and he doesn't
need TP for his You know MeVis Harrison twelve for
thirteen on field goal tries and perfect on thirty nine
extra points after taking over duties midway. It's good.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
The Rams win. It's in over time.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
So that front seven looks even more dangerous than it
did before. Fisk, Ford and Turner on the inside, Young
and Garrett wreaking havoc off the edges, Landman and holding
down the inside linebacker spots new Blood in their second
area as well. McDuffie takes Durant's place at corner, Watson
coming over from Kansas City as well, joining Lake and
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Forbes in the cornerback room. The cams return at safety.
Offense is running it back. I didn't mention Ty Simpson
out of respect for Stafford. If all goes well, nobody's
going to mention him outside of look at him holding
that iPad Houka Adams and their tight end trio will
gobble up most of the targets. Kyron and Quorum will
gobble up the handoffs. No team in the NFL has
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a higher over under than the Rams eleven and a half.
Ravens the only other team to receive that mark, and
LA got that despite having the fifth hardest expected schedule, IE.
How many games are their opponents predicted to win? Here's
a look at those opponents. They have eleven teams that
are supposed to finish with above five hundred records, but
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being they don't play Baltimore, they don't face anybody they
aren't in theory supposed to be seen wins is an
unrealistic ceiling. But after that Garret trade, who knows man,
No team has a higher ceiling at this point, say
fifteen wins in their case for this exercise, give them
road losses to San Francisco and Seattle. But if you
want to say it's a sixteen or a seventeen win ceiling,
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you're not going to get much argument from this bag.
When I look out of it, a dozen plus wins
looks like low hanging fruit unless Stafford falls off a QB.
Cliff McVeigh, him, Puka, DeVante, Kirn and Korum are not
going to be easy to slow down. And now a
defense featuring mister Garrett, I.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Feel the juice.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
I got one.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
That boy, set the done every yet every done that.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Whistle plus set the done again.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
You are not through the door.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
The Monty Python Black Knights aka the San Francisco forty
nine Ers lost both arms last year, both legs, no matter,
just a flesh wound.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Do you believe in this team?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
They bit the legs off twelve teams, symbolically speaking, If
they can just get through this year without half their
roster landing in a Scrubs episode, they could make a
run to the final game being played at their home
away from home at the end of the season.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
You want to more than the let's go bring it out.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Check this out, Brock Perdy. Nine games played, George Kittle eleven,
Brandon Aiyuk zero, Ricky pearsall nine, Nick Bosa three, Fred
Warner six, mckel Williams nine and still a half dozen wins.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
In favor of the mass units the forty nine ers,
and they earned it.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Give them a healthy roster for a full year and
they think they're a powerhouse no one will want to
deal with.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Last week, I gave you the mess. No matter what
you do, you wake up with a joy.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Joy, especially because their offense added auto Micic Evans, who
also has to rebound from an injury impact in twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Up touchdown catch, Bye bye.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Guvia Evans the big addition this offseason, only played eight
games a year ago.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I think the ball got away from Mike Kevins. Watch this.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
He has to take it back away from Kobe Bryant.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Thousand yards plus the previous eleven straight touchdown eleven to
fourteen tds four or five years twenty twenty to twenty
twenty four, just one of several future Hall of famers
on this roster.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Flat pass catch touchdown.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
By got it CMC Music Factory still the likely focal
point of their offense again.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
Christ jed Asad with a touchdown.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Hey summersaults into the end zone.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Keith for McCaffrey avoid injury.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
He he's got a.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
McAffrey got out.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Over twelve hundred rushing yards in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
McAffrey blows his way into the end zone.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Ten scores down low.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Once, not twice, but thrice for McCaffrey.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Did grind to finishing under four yards per carry for
the third time in his career.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
It's gonna get off a.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Touchdown, still a major player in the passing attack over
one hundred receptions after walk scheme, over nine hundred receiving
yards and seven receiving tds.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Purdy wants to throw Purty pressure, Purty steps up, Purty.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Throws con touchdown, McCaffrey touchdown, forty nine ers back in front,
guy feeding him all those passes still Senor BCB.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Brocket's gonna keep it.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Brocket to the episode, rock Purdy hoping to put in
a full shift in twenty twenty six. It's time Joe
get Lumberg to call him and let him know it's
not a half year or anything.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Okay, Saeball Pather Robertson.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Touchdown Purdy two hundred and forty plus yards per game
three straight years. Head Its Snack by Jenning hosted a
one hundred plus eight a year, go one hundred plus
rating three of his four years since being picked last.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Jed Eggs front of the episode.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Touchdown, Rock Purdy still has eliteness at tight end a
half okay. George Kittle seven touchdowns over six hundred yards
in his eleven games.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
It is my own you're on today. You're all down
on the crutches, cut down and I'm at.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Now he's coming back from an achilles injury.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Throws the deep ball down field, Kettle makes the catch
over the shoulder.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Thinks he'll make it back to start the year, ops.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
It into the inside. George Kettle, Richie.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Jump passing with your body, poor hands, Yeah, I would,
I'm on real Sometimes if he's not ready. They have
Jake Tungs who filled in nicely when Kittle was out
last year.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
You think that was.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
To him?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
That might have been the Kittle Titans all over the
league's going.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Touchdown Niners offense wasn't terrible despite missing so many guys.
Twenty five points per game was top ten. Good rolls
over the meddle at its caught by de Barcus Robinson,
fourth best in the red zone, and how about tops
on third down?
Speaker 6 (18:23):
It was a weak drop all the way down the
field by b Rock.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
They would like to cut back on the giveaways this year.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Out at Seattle has.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Recovered and to be more efficient at moving the ball.
Twentieth in yards per game isn't anything to write home about.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Takes a pitch that pitches in the Taffrick bubbles it
out about.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
But taking the fifth few of sacks is rolling left.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
He's got used check use check bags.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
To catch continuity up. There is all five twenty twenty
five starters return for twenty twenty six. Trent Williams, Colton
mckivitz at tackle, Connor Colby, Dom Puny at guard, Jake
Brendel at center. O line still has the assistance of
full back extraordinary. Kyle Yustchek chipped in over two hundred
receiving yards too.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
He was checking the flat first out nearside.
Speaker 8 (19:09):
Let me touch it up field across midfield, puts his
shoulder into the defender.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Juwan Jennings isn't back though, career high ninety vs. Last year,
six hundred plus yards best it.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
He's got it good fine the twenty the ten he's gone.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Added Christian Kirk to the fold. Been a while, but
the vet has some nice years on the resume.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Lay fake passed wide open touchdown.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
And they drafted day Sean Scribbling in the third round.
Speaker 9 (19:37):
This dude got some helium late in the process. He
went to the combine and ran a blistering four to
three six forty And you see there are two hundred
and seven pounds and the run after catch, that's where
that speech shows up, specifically in a game against Georgia
where he catched a five yard little hitch and rolls
away from Everett, Who's someone who ran four to three
six or four to three eight at the combine.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
But just look at it. When he gets the ball
in his hands after the catch. City, he can absolutely fly.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
He'll join Evans and Ricky Piersall should see more balls
if he can stay healthy. Over five hundred yards in
his nine games in his second year. They think he's
a thousand yard type guy. If he plays all seventeen
said goodbye to Kendrick Bourne off a five hundred plus
yard season. McCaffrey will have a new understudy since Brian
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Robinson left town. Pitched in four hundred rush yards off
the bench.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Who's gonna take it in for the touchdown?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Niners defense lost the guidance of Robert Sala again.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I would have forgot it if I'd have but.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Grabbed former Atlanta head coach Raheem Morris to take his place.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
This white this fight, Bro's twenty one zo, we know
we gotta do.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
He's taking over a defense that held its own despite
missing two first team All Pros for most of the season.
Teams to twenty one a game. It was remarkable under
the circumstances.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Dock do why buy Eric Hendricks? The forty nine ers take.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Over run downs maybe even more remarkable because they sported
the league's worst pass rush. Didn't play the pass.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Well, fires com plain touch.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
The gutter, didn't play the run well.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
A little bit of a skip step and an adjustment
to the possible tackle.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
He stepped right out of it.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
They weren't good on third down, So imagine if they
can fix a few things, I'm going to dominate. They
allowed a one hundred rate to quarterbacks, didn't pick off
many passes. Back of the end, zoners to only four
teams easier to complete passes against.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
For lovelent Itz touch down.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
They can play the run better. They gave up four
to three a carry out.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Time that we up fifteen.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Fuck and how about bothering the quarterback more often? Twenty
sacks fewest in the NFL, second lowest pressure rates. Nick
Bosa should hear all that and demand like one hundred
million a year.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Looking Pocka collapsing down, he goes nick Bosa.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Only three games played last year. He's as good as
it gets off the edge assuming he's all healed up.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Darn old, hen does he let it go?
Speaker 5 (22:17):
The ball is loose.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
The forty nine ers have it.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
It's Bosa.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Wasn't just Bosa, though they drafted Mickel Williams last year
in the first to play the robin to Bosa's batman.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
Not gonna be able to find a way out of
that one, as.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Williams the rookie has his first sack.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
That was Williams's only sack in nine games played. Bryce
Huff filled into the tune of four sacks, but he
isn't returning pressure.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Boa comes out, Ball cups out. It was Bryce hof
who got ta.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
They got a little something from Sammyo from the inside,
three sacks in his third year, back to back three
sacks season.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
God Ron fourth mass than the night folk. Let's go see.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
AI would have at least tried to pronounce his name.
That's to make it clear. I'm real and clearly lazy.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Hey, good job, good cop.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I do know how to say odiggy zoo. Though Osa
new in town last year, three and a half sacks
with Dallas.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Lots of t hear the cop downy go oh so
diggi Za.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
The other interior beef eaters that DT Jordan Elliott sixteen games,
sixteen starts, thirty one tackles behind them preferably all season
super linebacker Fred Warner. With that, Warner had over fifty tackles.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Fred Warner's gonna bot.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Fred Waters was just set the new San Francisco record
for forced bumble and.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
He only played six games. Some dudes can't do that
with seventeen games.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
David go take that?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Did I let go?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
His old mate Dre Greenlaw returns forty three tackles in
eight games with Denver hasn't been healthy two years in
a row.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Check shit down, juggle and dropped incomplete.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Traded away linebacker d Winters. He had a good year
career high one hundred and one tackles, eight for a loss,
plus a pick.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Heay winners a fed it Day Winner's going the other way.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Kadum Bethune also looked good, also a young guy, ninety
four tackles in his second year, made eight starts.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Time runs out. Tarnald has dumped.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
At level three corner. Ronardo Green also lost time to injury.
The one dB who comes off a really good year
versus the pass, though, held his targets to a mid
eighties rate ten passes defense, no touchdowns allowed to the
end zone dark incomplete coverage by Green looking for Slayton corner.
Diamador Lenor didn't have a bad twenty twenty five locked
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up a lot of number ones. Mid nineties rate allowed
a couple of picks.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
It's intercepted, picked up by Diamador.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Law corner uped in Stout rate allowed one hundred, no
TD's given up though over eighty tackles.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Downs was the target and Stout was there.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
For San Francisco safety Gyre Brown low nineties rate given
up two i in t's seventy six tackles year four
coming up oh his partner Malik Mustafa rate allowed over
one hundred in his second season, had to pick and
seventy six tackles in twelve games.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Mallock Mustafa with the interception.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Kicking that flava in your ear. Eddie Pinero, who comes
in off leading the NFL and field goal percentage went
twenty eight for twenty nine all right overview time secondary,
generally speaking, relying on the same cats to stop quarterbacks
Mustafa and Brown at safety, Stout, Leonore and Green at corner.
(25:53):
Hobbs will pitchin as well. Maybe Jack Jones can strum
a few chords for them. Front seven. Getting Bosa and
Warner back is huge. Greenlaw is back takes Winter's place
at linebacker, o'diggee Zua supplanting Jordan Elliott at defensive tackle.
If their guys upfront stay healthy, it changes everything on offense.
Evans and for Jennings, Kirk and stribbling for a Yuke
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keep tabs on Kittle's rehab, BCB and CMC return for
more fun. Niners got slapped with a ten and a
half over under win total, second highest in the league.
Seattle got the same, the Rams, one of the two
eleven and a half teams. The Niners expected strength of schedule,
so calculating their opponents twenty twenty six expected win totals
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pencils out to the seventh easiest track, so that's favorable.
Here is their slate. If they beat Miami, Arizona, Denver,
and Washington at home, Atlanta on the road, take care
of Vegas, Dallas, Minnesota, Seattle in front of the faithful,
The Giants get the Rams at home, the Chargers down south,
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Philadelphia back in the crib and sweep Arizona, that makes
for a fourteen wins ceiling. That's a steep ass for
this game preview guy, but they do seem set up
for eleven plus doves all, assuming the roster avoids all
those injuries they have. The talent just has to stay
on the field.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
What Shawks.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Sixteen twenty twenty five was an Empire strikes back year
in the NFL. The dark Side reigned, cut luke'sand off
Froze hands solo Seattle Seahawks and their menacing defense capturing
the Lombardi after winning fourteen regular season games.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Seattle rains of them all.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Now for the hard part, not letting a band of
teddy bears ruin your repeat bid.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
They can't take it away from him and never will.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Have to fend everyone off without the same cast. But
the guy that shaped their budding imperial defense is still
lurking on the sideline super Bowl Super Bowl, And if
Mike McDonald is the Jedi Master, he kind of appears
to be. May not matter who he's working with.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Your super Bowl champion brother, man, thanks for believing it.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
Yeah, man, I love it.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
It's not like folks were predicting he'd turned Seattle's defense
into the hardest team to score on it went down.
They know, hardest team to convert a third down on
only three teams holding quarterbacks to a lower rating. No
team holding them to fewer yards per attempt. Fifth most interceptions.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Hold up bail joy in love forty steps out about.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
He built a pass rush that put up the seventh
most sacks. Stup on mills the fourth highest pressure rate.
And they goes down and did it without blitzing much.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Hey steps up up che cheyawks on it.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
And to top it off, his boys were the hardest
team to run on. They didn't have some random shaft
a team could take advantage of. Their defense was full proof.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Oh we do, goddars.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
No, they were the eighty five Bears, the two thousand Ravens,
the twenty thirteen Seahawks.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
Then is it our way?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Then is an our way?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
They don't get nothing, maybe resembling their former selves the
best because they were not inept offensively what the plans
are right, thanks in large part to the Vikings scold
to Minnesota from the northwest, Am I right?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Hey, J Barner on a perfect pass. Darnold, we have
seen him throw that before.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Twenty eight points per game. Third most eighth most yards
per game and the Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Now they've stretched their lead to nineteen to nothing over
the Patrie.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
They will be running it back with most of the
same crew. Have to replace their top running back in
Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker on the offensive side, who
left Town off a thousand yard season.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Boy Kate is so good. He's got the stop start,
but his feet are always moving.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
They didn't waste time replacing him, taking Jadarian Price with
their first round pick.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Vision balance, We saw the.
Speaker 9 (30:23):
Kickoff return value there at Notre Dame as well. Look,
he had to play second fiddle to Jeremiah Love, but
this is a real deal back. There's a reason why
we all had him as a second running back in
this class. How about the contact balance. Once he absorbs contact,
he's able to get right through it. He's got you
can make Casey has even better vision than Jeremiah Love does.
He's a natural natural vision and feel as a runner.
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He's slippery and elusive.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
They will rely on a slightly altered secondary. They are
going forth without one of their starting safeties, Kobe Bryant,
who bolted off an excellent year playing the pass. He
picked off four balls held quarterbacks to a sub sixty rating,
and it's picked up Cody and no more. Reek Woolen
at corner also was tough on quarterbacks, holding them to
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a mid seventies rate, knocked down twelve passes.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
It is all about interceptor.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
They were four deep at corner, though, so losing Woolen
shouldn't hurt all that much.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Stafford shot, dug stap, pump Bay pastime, fire to the
ms off.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
All about in interceptor. Witherspoon jumps in front of the
untended receiver.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Devin Witherspoon has established himself as a CBE one type.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Which is coming Megan drapped up and drop.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
If Weatherspoon again comes off the edge, I don't think
may ever saw it.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Three years in the league, three Pro Bowls, comes off
a second team All Pro year. No corner Josh Joe
quietly one of the best corners going, held his targets
to a low seventies rate, played the pass that way
in twenty twenty four to two. Doesn't passes defense in
his fourth season.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I'd coverage intercepted.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
It's Josh job and corner Nick Amm and Worry might
have got jobbed out of defensive Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 8 (32:06):
Three Cousins deflected and Eman Worri off the deflection from
his chest.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
And yes he played slock corner more than safety, but
he was all over the field for them defensive Swiss
Army Knights.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
How about Nick aman Worri a block field goal, his
first career interception and now one and a half sex
on the season.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
If they get a full year from safety Julian Love,
that would mitigate Bryant's loss.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
And to the back of the heads, he's going to
where he wants.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
Well, he's pausing for a second to confirm that he's opened.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
He played the past great in the eight games he
got in last year, a low thirties rating with six
passes knocked down and a pick.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
If you don't the go ball, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Fourth year safety Tayokatta maybe slides in for Bryant, rating
aloud over one hundred, but sixty five tackles and a
pick in his first year starting games.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Goda's gona blitz and he gets there out and bring
him down.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
They also bolstered their backside with a second and third
round pick in the draft, first taking safety Budd Clark.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Yeah, he's a lean frame and all that, but he
finds the football. That was that opening night against.
Speaker 8 (33:12):
North Carolina Bill Belichick's debut.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
He would love to have that one back.
Speaker 8 (33:16):
How about Bud Clark getting into coverage there, locating the football, great.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Hands, then corner Julian Neal, big and long.
Speaker 9 (33:24):
He's a real efficient mover on the outside. Just want
to see him trust his eyes. We talk about that
with a lot of these dbs. Do you trust your eyes?
Just trust it and go pull the trigger and go
get it because he's got all the physical tools. Just
want to see him get rid of some of that
hesitancy CD because I believe there's more in his body.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
He can be a really good player. Front seven lost
a few faces. Let defensive end boy A Mafey walk
only gave him two sacks last year. They're starting front four,
all back, a half long, Leonard Williams coming off a
second team All Pro.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Effort nor more oh good.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Over sixty tackle, seven QB takedowns.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Let's go, let's go Old.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Iron Murphy broke out in his second season seven sacks
as well, same sixty two tackles as Williams.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Iron Murphy ends up with the sack.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Third member of their seven sack club Huchenna and Wo.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
Su I below team down and it get wait what first.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Season without missing ten plus games in three years? And
DeMarcus Lawrence back for his thirteenth year pro bowler in
year twelve six sacks housed, two fumble returns. Hi that
(34:45):
I like that that DT Jaron Reid filling out the
starting front four two and a half sacks in his
thirteen games. They have defensive end Derek Hall as well,
a couple of sacks in fourteen games. Three starts.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Now he's being dragged down back at the New England
forty five.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
Yard line, d Hall, Derek.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Hall gets in there.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
Let's go ahead, Oh.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Let's go man behind them? Linebacker Ernest Jones, who made
second team Mole Pro in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
I cannot o good.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
That kind one hundred and twenty six tackles, fourth year
in a row with one hundred plus and how about
five iron t's everyday you got? His partner Drake Thomas
comes off a ninety six tackle three and a half
sack shift career highs the first time a starter in
his three years with brag Thomas and backing them up
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third year linebacker Tyrese Knight planted two quarterbacks close to
sixty tackles, mostly coming off the bench.
Speaker 8 (35:46):
The same guy that hit him on the first touchdown,
Tyrese Knight hits him again.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Less changed to the offense, Yosemite. Sam Darnold back at quarterback.
I got, hoping to continue his second half career resurgence.
Toutch down say Hawk twenty five TVs. Last year, Plenty
of chunk plays.
Speaker 6 (36:09):
Wide open, breaking up, cut down.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Close to two hundred and forty yards per game, a
rating of ninety nine.
Speaker 6 (36:17):
Chap step take.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Step Je wasn't as explosive on paper as he was
for Minnesota. Didn't need to be got as to look
it's up.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
They took the leave in the NFC West. It's the classic,
as they said.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
But could cut back on the I INT's. But he
left justin Jefferson wishing they'd held on to him.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Look throath balls caught cut down say Hawks.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Had to watch him help Jackson Smith and Jigba take
over his top wide.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Out it pop tell up gets Copper, but he makes
the catch. Rep It's going on?
Speaker 6 (37:01):
What movie?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
One hundred and nineteen catches ten touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Well factor.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Sahawks show league leading seventeen hundred and ninety three yards.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Far back corner of the Hanzo guess who.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
First team All Pro in just his third year.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
He's gonna go in touchdown.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Stay hawk from six hundred and twenty eight yards as
a rookie.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Don't put up underneath jaf and.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
To eleven hundred and thirty to over seventeen hundred last year.
Maybe tough to keep that trend up.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Make the catch, break the tackle.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
He's gonna back.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Into the Handsoe Cooper Cup the number two again close
to six hundred yards two scores last year for the Vet.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
It can hit it, it's Cooper Cup was the reception,
but adequate based on JSN needing to get his first
oh Man, I'm Rashid Shaheed picked up via trade, came
through with some big plays as a receiver and on
returns at a gap.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
I brought the party with quickly. John A Tipper got game.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Was a pro bowler on that front. Liked his impact
enough they signed him to a three year deal.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Man the man on rashi yah ha Yahee Jeff ran
Right bath them about fifty yard explosive.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Why they're plenty happy with their tight end.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Oh my goodness, how did Sam squeeze that one in there?
In a great cats by Barnard A. J.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Barner a career high fifty two catches, five hundred and
nineteen yards sixt ds in his second season.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Barner's gotta touchdown.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
Welcome to the barn Show.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
The boys that set all of them up. No one
on their O line allowed more than four sacks in
twenty twenty five. If you get to knock down points
on that, both her down and we're both getting something.
I've loved that dude running it back with the same
five dudes too, Charles Cross and Abraham Lucas at the
tackle spots, Gray's Abel Anthony Bradford at guard, Jalen Sundell
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their center Sundell and Cross hoping to avoid injuries that
cost him a few games each. They were top five
and pressure rate allowed and sacks taken. Be happy with
similar play again this year.
Speaker 9 (39:08):
Will get into tween those one lines, so that mentality
of like sometimes get people's out of bad teams.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
At running back have to wait on Zach Charbonnet, He's
recovering from an ACL tear, hoping for a midyear return.
Went for over seven hundred yards in their time share,
led the team with twelve rushing tds, career high in yards,
touchdowns attempts without starting a single game in his third season.
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Emmanuel Wilson a sneaky good pickup close to five hundred
yards coming off the bench most games for Green Bay.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
And Wilson slips throwing scores to give Green Bay the lead.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Michael Dixon comes in off a second team All Pro
campaign as a punter. Jason Myers back to handle the
leg duties perfect on forty eight free throw attempts, missed
seven field goals, did try more than any other kicker
nine for twelve on fifty plus tries.
Speaker 9 (40:02):
Jason Myers now has set a new Super Bowl record
with his fifth field goal tonight.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
So the one big change to the offense losing walker
hoping the price will be right when they handed Jederion
Wilson a newcomer to the backfield as well, and keep
your eyes on George Halani. Not much action his first
two years, but he had some buzz surrounding him in camp.
Rest of the cast the same, Sammy Dee pitching it
to JSN, Coop Sheed and aj. They added bodies to
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their defense, but they're starting eleven should all be guys
who the Twelves know well. Ocata and Clark taking Bryant
snaps at safety next to love Emon, worry Job and
spoon Back at corner. Playing behind the same front seven
as last year, Williams Murphy, Reid in the trenches and
Wosu Lawrence being joined by Vet Dante Fowler who was
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with Dallas last year on the edge. Jones Thomas Knight
their second level linebackers. Hawks got a ten and a
half over under sticker placed on them, same as San
Francisco game lower than LA. Where's the respect?
Speaker 2 (41:06):
I ask?
Speaker 1 (41:07):
They do have the eleventh hardest schedule if you look
at who they play in factor in those teams twenty
twenty six expected win totals here are set opponents playing
the ceiling game with them. They could still start with
wins over New England, Arizona, Washington, the Chargers and the
Niners in front of the twelves. Kansas City is a
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home game two, beat Chicago, sweep the Cards, take Vegas
down Dallas and the Giants Philadelphia on the road, win
their home contest versus the Rams, and get Carolina on
the road. For thirteen wins. The optimistic Hawks fan would
not have a hard time believing that I'm not one
of those just a dufe to c in a bag.
(41:48):
But I still see eleven plus wins out of this
thing for them. That McDonald guy is no joke, and neither.
Speaker 8 (41:54):
Is that d.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
Arizona Cardinals three wins in two twenty twenty five led
to changes along the sideline and behind center. Sort of
finish this finish, boys, let's finish keep going, Mikey, So
now need to really lean into some mister mister take
those broken wings and learn to fly again already.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
Yeah, good job, or I'm just doing my job.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Just do my job, baby, Let the Mike lafloor. Jacoby
Brissett era.
Speaker 7 (42:25):
Begin Brissett firing date fireside and Harrison goes up and
he makes the catch.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Hey, if Sam Darnold can go from draft bus to
Super Bowl winner, why not.
Speaker 7 (42:35):
Jacoby throws deep middle in the end zone. It's caught
for a touchdown by Trey McBride.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Fact is, Brissette's play the second half of last year
wasn't all that bad.
Speaker 5 (42:45):
Bassett drives the legs forward and into the end zone
for the Cardinals.
Speaker 6 (42:49):
Touchdown.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
His stat line of twenty three tds against eight iron
t's in line with the likes of Jordan Love, Jalen Hurd's,
Josh Allen.
Speaker 8 (42:57):
Turns around, falls over, makes the catch seventeen yard touchdown.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
And Aaron Rodgers and better than Lamar Maholmes Purty, Daniel Jones,
among others a touchdown. Only seven quarterbacks threw for more
than his two hundred and forty yards per game.
Speaker 5 (43:14):
Carrying it out right side going present.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
Jones at those times of class didn't get much pub
because most of his efforts came in losses, but he
made their offense more dangerous than it.
Speaker 7 (43:24):
Was out Jacoby Brissette again lading the Cardinals down for
a go ahead touchdown.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
Jacoby Brissett, the expected starter for Arizona, seems to have
some competition from Carson Beck, who used the Hall of
Fame game to raise some eyebrows. In his preseason debut,
the Cardinals' third round pick completed fourteen of nineteen passes
one hundred and eighty eight yards and a ninety six
yard drive. He threw a TD posted a one to
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twenty five point four rating in a half of football
tremendous catches.
Speaker 5 (43:54):
That's a great throw to Carson bec.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
With that said, Lafleur has worked to get their O
face in proper shape.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
It's the crowd. The Titans are on it.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
Despite being top ten on third down, they only average
twenty points per game. Not great at moving the ball
or cashing in when they reached the red zone.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Harrison bobbles balls picked off the big ad to this
side of the ball.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Jeremiah Love, who they took with a third overall pick
in the draft.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
You talked about an athlete, how about how loose and
explosive he is. He's able to.
Speaker 9 (44:24):
Make people miss at full speed watching this pit game
of spin.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
They don't even touch him. And then once you get
out in the open field, just forget it.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
You're not going to be able to run him down.
Speaker 9 (44:32):
He is a home run hitter to be able to
make you mess being gladly or we can just go
ahead and take the stairs and jump right over the
top of a USC defender in a rivalry game and
then out of the backfield. He is a threat, not
just someone you're gonna check the ball down to someone
you can get out into the route. And a lot
of times with these explosive backs, maybe you sacrifice some
of that physicality and toughness not so much with him.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
And he will fight his way into the end zone.
Speaker 1 (44:54):
They need much better O line play. Compared to twenty
twenty five, it was a mess and.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
For the sixth time today.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
Nine different guys started games. Five different guys gave up
four plus sacks.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Recent let's get hit again, ball bounces.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
Right tackle Jonah Williams seven and a half allowed. Team
gave up a fat Albert fifty nine total allowed, the
fourth highest pressure rate.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Sim it's a play accident what he runs right into.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
Cam Jordan used their second round pick on guard Chase Besontis.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
Well, there you go.
Speaker 9 (45:28):
They addressed the offensive line and do it along the interior.
The first game I watched to see at the bottom
there was against Miami and that was an epic battle
between him and Ruben Bain, and ruben Bain went inside.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
Very competitive, does not real long. He's got thirty one
inch arms.
Speaker 9 (45:40):
To talk a lot about the arm length in this
year's draft, but he's got run power. He can get
underneath your pads and drive you. And there's an ability
at that second level as an athlete to be able
to adjust in space.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
They signed Isaac say Lumalo to take over at guard.
Was with Pittsburgh last year. Picked up Elijah Wilkinson to
take over right tackle. Not the best year with Atlanta
giving up seven sacks, but Jonah Williams and Calvin Beacham
gave up thirteen combined at that spot last year. James
Connor was lost after three games played.
Speaker 5 (46:14):
Touchdown Arizona.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
Marie Demarcado, Zonovan Knight, Michael Carter all had turns none
able to make much of an impact.
Speaker 8 (46:23):
De Marcado dropped the football as he was going into
the inZone.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
They're hoping Connor can rebound, but also added former Falcon
Tyler Algier over five hundred yards and eight touchdowns as
Jon's backup last season.
Speaker 6 (46:37):
Dowger.
Speaker 5 (46:38):
Here goes Tyler bang ten five minute let us on
the board.
Speaker 1 (46:43):
Arizona's offense sports the league's top tight end holds on
for the touchdown. It's safe to crown Trey McBride at
this point, right.
Speaker 6 (46:55):
Hot on the goal line. Touchdown.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Trey McBride eleven hundred plus yards back to back seasons,
more yards each year since hitting the scene in twenty
twenty two.
Speaker 5 (47:05):
Crows right in the end zone cup for a touchdown
by Trey McBride over.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
Twelve hundred last year with the record breaking one hundred
and twenty six catches over the middle end.
Speaker 2 (47:15):
Of the end zone into a tight window.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
McBride, no tight end has ever had more in a
season eleven touchdowns, First Team All Pro.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
Welcome back to the second time today, McBride.
Speaker 1 (47:26):
Michael Wilson a Jacoby fae five hundred and forty plus
yards his first two years, then over one thousand and
his year three seven touchdowns.
Speaker 6 (47:34):
Michael Wilson doing what Michael Wilson.
Speaker 1 (47:37):
Does, career high in scores and yards in his third year.
Speaker 6 (47:40):
And it's a touchdown. What a dart Now if.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
They could just get w R one production from Marvin
Harrison junior fir side.
Speaker 2 (47:49):
It is under thrown, but it's hot anyway, Ny Harrison.
There were two defenders in front of Harrison, any.
Speaker 6 (47:57):
Rent and away.
Speaker 1 (47:59):
Harrison trying to rebound from the dreaded sophomore slump. Dropped
from eight hundred and eighty five yards eight touchdowns is
a rookie year to six oh eight and four in
his year two.
Speaker 2 (48:09):
Deep left side and side.
Speaker 3 (48:14):
That is so much more than just a touchdown that
gets you within a possession.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
Arizona added vet wide receiver Kendrick Floor into the fold
over five hundred and fifty yards with San Francisco in
twenty twenty five. Sixteen games, eight.
Speaker 6 (48:28):
Starts Jones, deep deep, dropped throw along the sideline, hold in.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
And they have young tight end Elijah Higgins career high
thirty catches three hundred and one yards Asthma Bride's back.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
Up Brisset third and eleven.
Speaker 7 (48:42):
Brissett down the middle got it for Higgins and the
tight end spins off the tackle.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
Cardinals have even more room for improvement on the defensive
side of things.
Speaker 2 (48:51):
Makes the catch over the shoulder, They need.
Speaker 1 (48:54):
To fix it all after walk skin Lafloor choosing to
keep DC Nick Rallis, who held position under former head
coach Jonathan Gannon, but.
Speaker 5 (49:03):
It all on touched down.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
Only four teams allowed more points per game than Arizona's
twenty eight per.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
Being chased by the Cardinals.
Speaker 6 (49:11):
He's at the.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
Five, twenty fifth in the red zone, twenty seventh on
third down, and in yards per game allowed.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
Run norg and it's inside the red zone.
Speaker 1 (49:21):
Have to play the pass better. Gave up a ninety
seven rating to quarterbacks thirty one TV passes, two hundred
and thirty yards per game.
Speaker 2 (49:28):
He's got red by inside the Flood.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
As they have a nice mix of vets and youth,
but they need to play the pass better collectively. Jack
Jet safety Buddha Baker gave up a rating over one hundred.
He did make his seventh Pro Bowl in a row,
though one hundred and twenty tackles one hundred plus tackles
six of his last eight years.
Speaker 3 (49:51):
He had it and then he went to the ground.
Buddha Baker ripped it out.
Speaker 1 (49:55):
We'll have a new starter next to him. Safety Jalen
Thompson is gone. Rate alowed one hundred, but ninety five tackles.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
Run in at the four yard line.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
Safety Daydreon Taylor Demerson could slide in hoping he can
pick up where he left off. Not a ton of reps,
but picked off two passes without allowing a touchdown in
his rookie year for a super low mid thirties rate.
Speaker 8 (50:17):
At Jones got a man in Piersolboy throws it away,
picked off by the rabbit.
Speaker 1 (50:23):
Dadrian Taylor Dennerson added vet safety Andrew wininguard eighty plus
tackle sub ninety eight year in Jacksonville last season.
Speaker 8 (50:32):
That ball is going to be picked off by doing
Andrew Winger picked it off out of the ground.
Speaker 1 (50:37):
Cornerback Will Johnson hopes to clean some things up. He
gave up a rating north of one hundred as a rookie,
allowed five touchdowns in twelve games, took up breaks.
Speaker 3 (50:45):
Of tackle touchdown rams.
Speaker 1 (50:48):
He did also get his hands on ten passes, so
it wasn't all bad. Corner Denzel Burke, on the other hand,
shined all the year, holding quarterbacks to a low eighties rate,
knocking down eleven passes and picking off three as a rookie.
Speaker 7 (51:00):
Right side and it is picked off at the forty
yard line by den Zel Burk, He's tackled there.
Speaker 1 (51:06):
Corner Max Melton only played ten games no touchdowns allowed
when he played, held his targets to a sub ninety right.
Speaker 5 (51:12):
Broke it up by Max Melton.
Speaker 2 (51:14):
Who's been busy today, Rutgers guy, He's really stepped up today.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
Corner Garrett Williams another rebound candidate, after giving up six
touchdowns in his ten games played ray bothering quarterbacks more
often would help those fellows. Cardinals only thirty sacks and
didn't pressure passers very often. At times, it felt like
only two guys were even trying to get home. Josh Sweat,
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who went for a career high twelve sacks four forced fumbles,
has eight plus bags three of the last four seasons.
Grabbed and slung down Kalaas Campbell took off to Baltimore
six and a half sacks in his nineteenth season.
Speaker 5 (51:54):
Hey sack, that's Kalias cambll.
Speaker 1 (51:56):
The other candidates to help hurry things up, Darius Robinson,
who entered his third year.
Speaker 6 (52:00):
To play action in trouble down. He goes that.
Speaker 1 (52:04):
Right there, his lone sack of twenty twenty five. Pretty
sure the Red Sea was expecting more than a sack
per season from him. There's Walter Nolan too. He only
dropped two quarterbacks his rookie year, only played six games.
Speaker 5 (52:17):
It's intercepting by Nolan across.
Speaker 2 (52:19):
By a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (52:23):
Moving Zaven Collins to outside linebacker hasn't really produced as hoped.
Only one and a half sacks last year.
Speaker 7 (52:29):
Close up to five recovered the two by comments and
he rolls into the end zone for a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (52:35):
Baron Browning with two across his fifteen games. And how
about stopping runners before they get too far upfield?
Speaker 2 (52:41):
If we go for that tide, he gets out. He
got pushed that zone.
Speaker 1 (52:46):
To complete the turd Ferguson Sandwich, they gave up four
to four a run to ball carriers Tyson backs. They
swapped one lane clogger for another. Cut ties with Dalvin
Tomlinson after he ended with twenty six tackles over seventeen starts.
Speaker 8 (53:02):
Burrow in trouble again and Burrow goes down. It's Dalvin Tomlinson.
Speaker 1 (53:07):
Brought Roy Lopez back, a twenty eight to thirty tackle
guy the last two years with Arizona. In twenty twenty
four Detroit.
Speaker 3 (53:15):
Last year doubt he goes sack number two on the
day for Detroit.
Speaker 6 (53:19):
It's Roy Lopez.
Speaker 1 (53:21):
Behind them at the inside linebacker spots Vet mac Wilson
sixty tackles an interception in eight games.
Speaker 8 (53:27):
Joel's rolls throws intercepted picked off by mac Wilson.
Speaker 1 (53:33):
And Cody Simon. Looking to build off a rookie year
that saw him rack up seventy six tackles.
Speaker 8 (53:38):
The rookie from Ohio State back in Ohio gets the sack.
Speaker 1 (53:43):
They won't have help from a keem. Davis Gaither left town,
taking down one hundred and seventeen ballcarriers.
Speaker 2 (53:49):
The man it's picked over the middle, Davis Gaither entered.
Speaker 1 (53:54):
Jack Gibbons ended his year with New England with eighty
one tackles, eight for a loss and.
Speaker 6 (53:59):
Driven back where gimmons to finish off the play.
Speaker 2 (54:01):
One linebacker starts it, the other finishes.
Speaker 1 (54:04):
Devin DuVernay the new return man eleven yards per punt
return with Chicago, twenty six on kickoffs, swung multiple games
with big returns.
Speaker 6 (54:13):
Devin Duverney looking for a lane.
Speaker 8 (54:15):
He's got one DuVernay down the sideline and it's Andre
Schmidt who shoves him out near midfield.
Speaker 1 (54:22):
Kicker Chad Ryland was perfect last year on extra points.
He needs to miss less on field goal tries. Seventy
five percent is not a good rate if you're a kicker.
Speaker 2 (54:31):
The kick from Rylan no good.
Speaker 1 (54:35):
So here's what it looks like, simplified front seven. Lopez
for Tomlinson in the middle. They're banking on Robinson and
Nolan to play up to their potential. Nolan taking Kalais's starts,
hoping Ojulari, Collins and or Browning can help sweat off
the edge. Wilson, Simon Gibbons at inside linebacker, Gibbons replacing
(54:55):
Davis Gather secondary win guard for Thompson at safety, Baker
and Taylor Emerson also being relied upon to patrol the
back Johnson, Burke, Williams, Melton, Sean Murphy Bunting in the
cornerback room and on offense. Love the big addition Algier
added as well. With Connor still around for Jacoby to
hand off to McBride to top tier tight end, Wilson
(55:17):
on the upswing at wide out. Hopefully Harrison emerges as
a true WR one and Born hoping to carve out
an identity for himself. Within all that, only Miami got
Arizona's four and a half over under designation. No other
team has lower expectations than the Cards and Fins, and
a key to Arizona's low number is their twenty twenty
(55:38):
six opponents expected win totals. No team in the league
has a harder expected schedule their own division A big
contributor to that. Let's say Woody Woodpecker was predicting their year.
I know it's not the same bird, but he's read,
so here's his bias take. Maybe they catch Seattle with
the Super Bowl hangover. Giants are seven and a half
(55:59):
over undertip they take Detroit in a shootout. Maybe beat
Dallas because why not they beat them last year. Kansas
City has some question marks, so who knows? Washington another
seven and a half. Are they get Philadelphia at home?
The Jets aren't supposed to be good Saints and mid
type squad expectation wise, and Raiders are expected to have
(56:20):
a rough year ten wins as a very optimistic ceiling
a game preview guy, good luck to the Red Sea,
but it feels like they're going to be back in
the running for a top three pick.
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